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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Umbran" data-source="post: 3233495" data-attributes="member: 177">Well, to many it is a very pointed cosmetic element - the interior difference is denoted by the exterior difference, and thematically, that's important.  Even if you're making them bone white, you're makign them look different - exactly how they're different isn't meaningful.  And if you aren't going for a thematic difference, why not just keep it simple and use a normal evil elf?In my campaign, I've sort of mixed elves and Tad Williams sithi - Roughy 5 centuries ago, there was a great conflict, and some of the elves came to dispair.  They made a bargain with the evil assaulting powers, and to prove thier new loyalty, they slew their good elven brethren, and bathed in their blood.  They'd been tricked, of course.  Fey could not spill the blood of other fey without grave consequences - the elven races have now lost their immortality, and the ritual marked the skins of the despairing ones, turning them jet black.  The marking is passed to children, though there are ways that such a second-generation drow can cleanse themselves of the taint, though immortality is now beyond their reach...</blockquote>